Dry Cooking A Joint In A Slow Cooker

[bednobs]

can you do it? It's a pork shoulder with crackling. Will it be gopping if i dry cook it?

[woofgang]

gopping?

[Tilly2]

I dry cooked chicken but have not tried pork. I don't think you'd get crackling but you could finish it off in a hot oven for half an hour. That might work.

[bednobs]

yuckky

[Purple_Popple]

Yes, just stick it in...but remove the crackling first and cook that in the oven so you get it crispy.

[nungate]

I think you have to have liquid when you use a slow cooker - a halogen oven would be the gadget to use for a pork shoulder if you want the crackling

[woofgang]

I have just checked my instruction book and mine must have liquid in it otherwise the pot will crack, maybe explosively...so it might be worth checking your manual, you don't want to lose your lunch.

[Tilly2]

I don't put in any liquid when I do my chicken. It creates its own liquid. I do stand it on a few sliced carrots, though, in case it sticks to the bottom.

[rockyracoon]

I cook joints in the slow cooker a fair bit and I don't think you'll get crackling, I'd go down purple popples route?

[woofgang]

Mine doesn't need a lot Tilly and you can do things like sponges in it, but the instructions for mine say no dry cooking.

[rockyracoon]

I don't put liquod in mine, as soon as I switch it on the bloody condensation starts. What I do do is scrunch up balls of tin foil to put the joint on so it doesn't boil in the bottom of the pot.

[EDDIE51]

Add no liquid the meat will cook in it's own juice's. You will not get crackling so take that off first and put it under the grill to cook and crisp it.

[bednobs]

Now I've defrosted it for a bit I have realised it's actually beef

[sherrardk]

Sorry, but that's funny.

[woofgang]

scratch the crackling advice then.

[EDDIE51]

Beef cooks very well in a slow cooker , even better than pork, still do not add water though, just bung it in the slow cooker. 5 hours at least.

[EDDIE51]

Do you realize that you do not even need to defrost first to slow cook?
Just add an hour or three to the cooking time and bung it in frozen.
May have had a surprise in your case though!